2023-02-23 18:00:002023-02-23 19:00:00Europe/LondonForgotten Stories: Saffron in Cambridge, and Elsewhere-, -, -
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Lecture by Kasia Boddy, whose talk is on is on a tiny part of a tiny flower - the elongated stigmas of Crocus sativus which, when dried, are known as saffron. Once an important British crop, she will consider why, from the late 14th century, it became so desirable, the involvement of the colleges in Cambridge and Oxford, its cultivation and consumption.